What the history of emotions can offer to psychologists, economists, and computer scientists (among others).
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm
Gestalt psychology, frontloading phenomenology, and psychophysics
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’
A long‐brewing crisis: The historical antecedents of major alcohol policy change in Ireland
Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956
The abolition of poor law guardians (1906)
Emotions: Some historical observations.
Denied Paternity: Parental Rights and the Guardianship of Infants in Ireland, 1937–1964
The Power of Emotions: Negotiating Mother–Daughter Relationships in Seventeenth-century Hungary
Historical Origins of the Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination Mandates: The View from California
A case for a “middle-way career” in the history of psychology: The work of pioneering psychoanalyst Marjorie Brierley in early 20th century Britain.
The humanizing of the poor law (1894)
Beyond the Depathologization of Homosexuality: Reframing Evelyn Hooker as a Boundary Shifter in Twentieth-Century US Sex Research
The Peasants’ Revolt—when people fought corruption
Wat Tyler was murdered for leading the peasants
Research on the history of psychiatry
A historical perspective on mental health: Proposal for a dialogue between history and psychology.
Class, literacy and social mobility: Madrid, 1880–1905
Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
Wearing the wolf skin: psychiatry and the phenomenon of the berserker in medieval Scandinavia
Zoning Damned Whores and God’s Police: Maintaining Prostitution through Land Use and Euphemism in Victoria, Australia
Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children’s Bureau
Grace Abbott and her sister Edith fought for social welfare reform on behalf of the urban lower classes, working with Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago from 1908 to 1920. In 1921, Grace Abbott became head of the Children’s Bureau, part of the U.S. Department of Labor.
A plea for poor law reform (1893)
Between the West and the World: Historical Perspectives on the Place of Sociology in Asia
Prohibition: everything you wanted to know
Was Al Capone’s brother really a Prohibition agent? What was the atmosphere in a speakeasy like? And why did Americans think that banning booze would ever work? In the latest episode in our series on history’s biggest topics, historian Timothy Hickman responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries on the ban on booze in 1920s America.
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Who’s normal and who’s not? Notions of children’s intellectual development in the context of emerging special education at the turn of the twentieth century in Switzerland
Moral psychopathology and mental health: Modern and ancient.
The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”
The socialist feminist leader Crystal Eastman
COVID-19 and the Blitz compared: mental health outcomes in the UK
Selling Faith and Managing Money | Billy Graham
The historical fate of the rural settlement network in Russia: the case of Tomsk Oblast, 1940s–1980s
A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans: Industrialization, Immigration, Religious Strife
How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?
The Most Important Thing That Ever Happened: Big, Bad Data and the Doubling of Human Life Expectancy
A new left teachers’ union: participatory democracy and the 1970s New Haven federation of teachers
Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
Reckoning with genocide and the denialism of the Canadian state
Canadian Dimension | Library and Archives Canada
Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
Global sweatshops: the history and future of North-South solidarity campaigns in Bangladesh and beyond
Writing the history of postcolonial and transcultural psychiatry in Africa
Promoting mental health through the lessons of history
Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas
Psychometric origins of depression
Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Guntrip on the social significance of schizoids
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Making Masters Moral: Household Subordinates and Upward Social Discipline in Late Medieval Basel
Elements of a counter‐exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics
‘I think we ought not to acknowledge them [paupers] as that encourages them to write’: the administrative state, power and the Victorian pauper
Fan Jones, The Madame Who Reigned Over the Devil’s Half Acre in Bangor
New England Historical Society
A saloon in the Devil’s Half Acre
The Girl in the Kent State Photo
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